Name: All Across This Land
Brand: Lojinx
SKU: 69186270
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All Across This Land

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Album: All Across This Land
#	Song Title		Time
1)	All Across This Land	More Info...	0:04
2)	Rock and Roll (Was Made for You)	More Info...	0:03
3)	Mystery and Wonder	More Info...	0:04
4)	Love Grow Cold	More Info...	0:03
5)	Lonesome Angel	More Info...	0:03
6)	Nights Were Made for Love	More Info...	0:04
7)	Cadillac Road	More Info...	0:04
8)	Let the Cards Fall	More Info...	0:03
9)	Even If You Don't	More Info...	0:03
10)	Across the River	More Info...	0:04

Album: All Across This Land
#	Song Title		Time
1)	All Across This Land	More Info...	0:04
2)	Rock and Roll (Was Made for You)	More Info...	0:03
3)	Mystery and Wonder	More Info...	0:04
4)	Love Grow Cold	More Info...	0:03
5)	Lonesome Angel	More Info...	0:03
6)	Nights Were Made for Love	More Info...	0:04
7)	Cadillac Road	More Info...	0:04
8)	Let the Cards Fall	More Info...	0:03
9)	Even If You Don't	More Info...	0:03
10)	Across the River	More Info...	0:04

Performer Notes

No longer concerned with making even the slightest feint toward delicate indie rock sensibilities, Blitzen Trapper settle into the '70s on All Across This Land, their eighth album but only third since retooling themselves as hirsute troubadours. With its ten songs weighing in at a mere 40 minutes, All Across This Land feels designed to be spun on vinyl, with the first side setting like a sunset with "Lonesome Angel" and the second side crashing out of the gate with "Nights Were Made for Love," a song designed as both an open-road anthem and a third single to be serviced to AOR. Blitzen Trapper's period trappings -- which, outside of the occasional old-fashioned synth purloined from 1985, are meticulously accurate -- are the key to their charm, because they devote as much attention to their arrangements and productions as they do their songs. A fair chunk of All Across This Land hews to a burnished folk-rock suited to the wide-open plains -- it's a combination of Neil Young and the Band, skewed by a dash of Petty -- but the songs that pull in the attention are the lumbering riff-rockers, the ones that open the album and set a muscular, nostalgic tone that, if you're of a certain disposition, is pretty hard to resist. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Professional Reviews

Paste (magazine) - "[This is] Blitzen Trapper's tightest, most focused rock `n' roll groove. It's a throttle-up, open-highway sort of album, full of easygoing melodies and fist-pumping guitar hooks."